I joined the Navy back in 2001, I got to bootcamp in August, but I've got issues with my meniscus and it got worse in there after about a month. They gave me a medical discharge a week before 9/11. I was pretty upset. I wanted to go back in, but I'm never going to be able to serve again with my knees. I wanted to get involved in one way or another, so I ended up learning how to do close quarters combat back in the mid 2000's and I did some training with the Oregon National Guard as OpFor (the bad guys). It was really awesome getting to help train up the guys before they deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Providing feedback to the Sergeants and Junior officers. Helping teach them what I know. It was some of the most satisfying work I have ever done. It was tough as hell though. We'd start at 5 am and we wouldn't stop until 8 pm. Totally worth it. I miss doing that stuff, but my life went a different way.
Yes. I challenged the United States of America to a dance battle and won. Therefore, the country got served. By me. I served the country.
No. Gramps was in Army in WW2. He never talked about it and I was basically told never to ask about it. Uncle was in Vietnam and he was literally a crazy person when I was growing up. Dad was in the Army after Vietnam and he was a loser who couldn't keep a job when I was growing up. I never had a single thought of joining. The last 20 years of idiotic wars we've been fighting has made me happy I didn't.
Tried to. Applied to the Air Force ROTC program, but was denied. They didn't like my asthma history. Or vision. They wanted people badly that were going into engineering. I was never that interested in engineering.
I nor my son will never serve in a military that sends poor people to other countries to kill other poor people for the rich's desire for resources. We will be working class heroes. I do have a cousin in Afghanistan and another in Kuwait. We continue to hope for their safety and that they will one day return home.
No. My parents freaked out on me when I told them I was thinking of going into the Navy. UCD served in the Navy, though. #doasisaynotasido
In your case, it would more likely be important to teach you NOT to push the big red shiny button accidentally. Here' a recent article I read that pretty much describes what's involved: http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a29275/air-force-nuclear-missileers/ We didn't have any female crewmembers in my day, but the duty's still about the same. Eighty feet underground in a steel capsule that's sealed with a bank vault style blast door, the whole thing hanging from huge shock absorbers. You feel pretty safe down there until they tell you that a ground burst from a nuke leaves a crater about a quarter mile deep.
C'mon now... first it's Entail... And as much as I or my son are not going to, it's honorable to serve. It takes a special type of person. Don't belittle it. I'm sure he had to know trajectories and other types of math to do that job.
Not really. All of that stuff is programmed. It's really more about monitoring the status of 10 ICBM's that you're directly responsible for, running security cops out to the silos each time a jack rabbit sets off the motion sensors, keeping track of maintenance crews, decoding messages, etc. There's a lot of training involved because you have a lot of equipment to monitor.
I tried to join the VFW, imagine my embarrassment when I found out it was Foreign Wars, not Forum Wars.
